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Chapter 36

#Chapter 36: Anatomy Ace

Nina

I had an anatomy exam the next day and after my shift with Tiffany I needed to get some studying done. It was nice and sunny out, which was a welcome relief after the weather being gloomy and rainy for the past couple of days, so I decided to find a spot to sit under a tree where there were few people.

A few minutes after I sat down in a spot a little ways out from campus in a quiet park, Luke showed up. He walked over to me and stood right in the way of the light.

“You’re blocking the sunlight,” I said, not looking up from my notebook.

“Oh. Sorry,” he said, stepping out of the way. He continued to stand there, just staring at me. I tried my best to ignore it in the hopes that he would just go away since I was not in a good mood

at all after seeing Enzo’s hickey, but he didn’t budge. Finally, I slammed down my pencil and glared up at him.

“If you’re gonna hang around, at least sit down or something,” I growled.

“Okay.” He immediately plopped down on the ground.

I couldn’t help but smirk a bit, amused

by his doglike obedience.

“What’s so funny?” he asked, cocking his head. As he did so, I could hear the faint rattle of his vertebrae clacking together.

“Nothing,” I replied, returning to my work. “You’re just… Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

Luke was silent for several moments

speaking. “Of course

said finally.

don’t you share them,

for much longer this time. After about ten minutes, when I had become reabsorbed in my studying and thought for sure that he had gone dormant or something, he suddenly spoke again. novelxo.com fast

made a

looked up suddenly and furrowed my

of a skull with notes scribbled on it. “Right there. You got your terms mixed up. It’s occipital bone, not

notes

he was

I

“Thanks,” I muttered.

No problem.

for several more minutes. I became absorbed in my studying again, only to notice eventually that he was inching closer and closer

he muttered, rubbing

and looked up from my work again. “What is it

for facial expression, not supporting the lacrimal apparatus. That

realized that Luke was right. I fixed

know all this?” I

at me,” Luke said, gesturing to himself. “I am a skeleton, after all. And

You pick up on things here

have any other pointers you can

“Yes, actually…”

together under the tree while he helped me study. He was a surprisingly good anatomy tutor, even going so far as to show me where all of the bones were on his own skeleton. He was incredibly literal and couldn’t take a joke, but it was still surprisingly nice to spend time with someone who wasn’t either trying to backstab me or have

of our “tutoring”

two things:

of anatomy,

friend.

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